TheVegetarian Trap

[Guest guest]

Diet is a dangerous subject, and misinformation in that field can be

very harmful or even fatal. Wrong guidance on what you eat can be as

easy as catching a cold, whether it's from television, or the people

around you, or just yourself. I was one of the victims of that trap,

where I somehow stubbornly convinced myself against the advice of my

parents that a complete vegetarian diet is the ultimate solution to

obesity.

 

Oh, how wrong I was! Within less than two and a half weeks I

realized that there was something terribly wrong with this

vegetarian diet. The first signs started with weariness and

heaviness; every time I went to play squash with my uncle, I was

barely able to lift the racket. I also expected my weight to reduce

drastically, as I watched it rocket 20kgs within three weeks (from

125kgs to 145kgs). The situation spoke for itself, and I did not

have to communicate to my parents the harshly humorous situation. My

father immediately took me to the hospital, where the doctors made

many blood tests. Everything was fine except for vitamin B12, which

was lower than the bare minimum on their `human scale'.

 

I was set on a lengthy course of B12 injections and tablets, and

came to know that vitamin B12 was a major component in the

metabolism of fats and sugars, which means that a lack of it would

make a person fat. I also found out that this vitamin was only

present in animal products, whether in the form of meat, eggs, dairy

products, liver, mollusks, etc.

 

After two months of B12 medication and a diet reset to normal, I

continued taking B12 supplements as I felt a tremendous difference.

The tiredness was gone, and I would play squash and tennis for

hours; and my weight plummeted a staggering 40kgs (i.e. it became

105kgs). For a height of 6ft 4inches, this was not bad. I was having

a balanced diet, but the carbohydrates were preferentially taken in

the form of fruits, vegetables, and nuts, and not in the form of

seeds and beans. I was drinking on average one and a half large

cartons of juice per day, and was eating lots of sea bream (my

favorite fish), and I never felt that I was starving myself or

depriving myself of a favorite meal. In fact, I was losing weight

without even going on a real weight-loss diet.

[Guest guest]

Was your diet mainly cooked vegetables? There's a little known thing

in uncooked foods called food enzymes which makes food easier to

digest which indirectly makes uncooked foods higher in nutrition. All

cooked foods and processed foods are devoid of enzymes. Had you eaten

fresh fruit and leafy greens it would probably have worked much better.

 

Also a drastic and strict diet change (especially cooked foods)

maintained for very long can be very stressful on the body, even

dangerous. The body needs quite a while to adapt.

 

Course I'm sure others in here know a lot more about it than me.

[Guest guest]

Well yes, I had almost a whole month purely on vegetables of all kind.

Vitamin B12 sources are animal products, unless I was a fan of algae.

I was eating all sorts of green salads and vegetables, and I know that

they have most of the vitamins, but not vitamin B12. The difference

between us and herbivores is that herbivores can produce vitamin B12

within their bodies, and they do not have to rely on an external

source of B12. Right now I eat lots of meat, mainly in the form of

fish, which I like the best. I also prefer taking my carbohydrates

mainly from fruits, because apparently I am sensitive to wheat, rice

and other grains, which blow up the size of my stomach.

 

, " the_blogologist "

<mposey wrote:

>

> Was your diet mainly cooked vegetables? There's a little known thing

> in uncooked foods called food enzymes which makes food easier to

> digest which indirectly makes uncooked foods higher in nutrition. All

> cooked foods and processed foods are devoid of enzymes. Had you eaten

> fresh fruit and leafy greens it would probably have worked much

better.

>

> Also a drastic and strict diet change (especially cooked foods)

> maintained for very long can be very stressful on the body, even

> dangerous. The body needs quite a while to adapt.

>

> Course I'm sure others in here know a lot more about it than me.

>